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Illustrated London News

When The Illustrated London News was established in 1842, it was
the first newspaper to offer images for anything more than the odd
satirical cartoon and maybe a dramatic portrait to supplement
reports of a criminal trial. In contrast, this new publication was
substantially made up of images, aided by technological innovation.
While other papers were still using expensive copper prints, the
ILN used woodcuts, which were cheaper and faster to produce. It
became very popular with those of limited literacy, and prefigured
the image-heavy newspaper formatting of the photographic age.

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Citation:
Editors. "Illustrated London News".
The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 August 2013
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1418, accessed 31 March 2015.]

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